Massive dust storm sweeps over Atlantic

The Saharan Air Layer, a burst of dust, could possibly suppress this year’s hurricane season. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

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>>>now to what may be the best possible news for those of us hoping to get through a mild
2013hurricane season
along our already battered shoreline. a massive and sprawling
dust storm
in africa may suppress this year's
hurricane season
, at least for a while, over on this side of the atlantic. because weather patterns begin over there, and come west, and because the
air mass
is so big and so arid, forecasters are hoping this so-called
saharan air layer
will buy us some time. it already stretches from
north africa
to
puerto rico
, and there are no major storms in the pipeline. at least not yet.